Is it always bad practice to start an ID with a number? (CSS)

Question

In my project I have submissions and comments, each with an ID. Currently the ID\'s are just numeric and correspond to their database ID\'s. Everything is working fine but w

Answer 1

The HTML 5 Specification lifts this restriction. If you're worried about validity you might simply consider changing the DTD to HTML5's.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/elements.html#the-id-attribute